The pressure sensitive adhesive tape for semiconductor processing of the present invention is a pressure sensitive adhesive tape for semiconductor processing, which, in a step of grinding a back face of a semiconductor wafer having a groove formed on a front face thereof or having a modified region formed therein to singulate the semiconductor wafer into semiconductor chips, is stuck on the front face of the semiconductor wafer and used, the pressure sensitive adhesive tape for semiconductor processing including a base, a buffer layer provided on one face of the base, and a pressure sensitive adhesive layer provided on the other face of the base, and having a ratio (D2/D1) of a thickness (D2) of the buffer layer to a thickness (D1) of the base of 0.7 or less and an indentation depth (X) of the front face on the buffer layer side of 2.5 μm or less.
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1. A pressure sensitive adhesive tape, comprising: a base comprising two faces, a buffer layer provided on one face of the base, and a pressure sensitive adhesive layer provided on the other face of the base, wherein the pressure sensitive adhesive tape has a ratio of a thickness of the buffer layer to a thickness of the base of 0.7 or less and an indentation depth of a front face on the buffer layer side of 2.5 μm or less; and wherein the base has a Young's modulus of 1,000 MPa or more.
2. The pressure sensitive adhesive tape according to claim 1 , wherein the thickness of the base is 110 μm or less.
3. The pressure sensitive adhesive tape according to claim 1 , wherein the base has at least a polyethylene terephthalate film.
4. The pressure sensitive adhesive tape according to claim 1 , wherein the buffer layer is formed of a buffer layer-forming composition comprising: a urethane (meth)acrylate, a first polymerizable compound having an alicyclic group or a heterocyclic group each having a ring-forming atom number of 6 to 20, and a second polymerizable compound having a functional group.
5. The pressure sensitive adhesive tape according to claim 4 , wherein the first polymerizable compound is an alicyclic group-containing (meth)acrylate, and the second polymerizable compound is a hydroxyl group-containing (meth)acrylate.
6. The pressure sensitive adhesive tape according to claim 1 , wherein the pressure sensitive adhesive layer has an elastic modulus at 23° C. of 0.10 to 0.50 MPa.
7. The pressure sensitive adhesive tape according to claim 1 , wherein the pressure sensitive adhesive layer has a thickness of 70 μm or less.
8. The pressure sensitive adhesive tape according to claim 1 , wherein the indentation depth is 1.0 to 2.5 μm.
9. The pressure sensitive adhesive tape according to claim 1 , wherein the indentation depth is 1.5 to 2.4 μm.
10. The pressure sensitive adhesive tape according to claim 1 , wherein the ratio of the thickness of the buffer layer to the thickness of the base is 0.10 to 0.70.
11. The pressure sensitive adhesive tape according to claim 8 , wherein the ratio of the thickness of the buffer layer to the thickness of the base is 0.10 to 0.70.
12. The pressure sensitive adhesive tape according to claim 9 , wherein the ratio of the thickness of the buffer layer to the thickness of the base is 0.10 to 0.70.
13. The pressure sensitive adhesive tape according to claim 1 , wherein the ratio of the thickness of the buffer layer to the thickness of the base is 0.13 to 0.66.
14. The pressure sensitive adhesive tape according to claim 8 , wherein the ratio of the thickness of the buffer layer to the thickness of the base is 0.13 to 0.66.
15. The pressure sensitive adhesive tape according to claim 9 , wherein the ratio of the thickness of the buffer layer to the thickness of the base is 0.13 to 0.66.
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